Pentaho Community & Enterprise Edition Product

Comparison
Pentaho builds on an ‘open core’ model which means that the core ‘engines’ in the platform
such as Kettle (ETL) and Mondrian (OLAP) are all included in Community Edition (CE). Features
built on top of the core that specifically benefits enterprise-scale business analytics such as PDI
job scheduling and workload management tools and Analyzer (Visualization and Ad hoc
analysis) are only available in Enterprise Edition (EE). Admin and security features such as AES
passwords and Kerberos for Hadoop are also only available in Enterprise Edition. (See the chart
starting on the next page)

Two of the major differentiators between Enterprise Edition and the Community Edition include
Pentaho Support and software release cadences.

Pentaho Support:
With the Enterprise Edition, you get Pentaho Support which at the Enterprise level could
include a single point of contact to provide ongoing guidance, best practices, and management
of feature requests.

Release Cadences:
The Community edition gets the two major releases typically released in a year. The Enterprise
edition not only receives the major releases but also gets all patch releases which include
enhancements, fixes of any defects, bugs, requested customer enhancements, and any
additional security features. (see chart below)

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Comparison Matrix

Feature CE EE

Pentaho Data Integration (Merged Pentaho Server)

DI-Server

Job Restart X

Transactional Job Execution X

Load Balancing of Transformations X

DI-Scheduling X

Content Repository X X

Version Control X X

User / Role Security (Pentaho Security) X X

Database Security X X

Purge Utility X X

Innovation for Big Data

Data Services X X

Carte on Yarn X

Hadoop Support X X

Spark Support (Spark Orchestration, Spark SQL, Spark MLlib) X X

Adaptive Execution Layer (Spark, Kettle) X X

MS Azure HD Insights X X

Hadoop HA Support X

Monitoring & Auditing

PDI Operations Mart X

SNMP Monitoring X

Big Data & Security

AES Password Support X

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 Kerberos Support X

Sentry & Ranger Support X

Special topics (Job Entries, Steps & Capabilities)

Data Explorer (Visual Data Explorer) X

JMS X

IBM MQ Support X

Splunk Support X

SAP Hana Bulk Loader X

Pentaho Data Science Pack

R API plugin X X

R Script Executor X

Weka Forecasting Plugin X

Weka Machine Learning Plugin X

Pentaho Business Analytics Server

Analyzer

General Analyzer Functionality X

Native Integration with MongoDB X

Geo Plugin X

Distributed Cache for Mondrian X

Dashboards

General Dashboard Functionality X

Chart Editor X

Open Flash Chart (including Dial Chart) X

Reporting

Interactive Reporting X

Platform Administration & Auditing

Migration Tool X

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 JDBC Distribution Utility X

Audit Reporting (Operations Mart) X

Platform Mobile Support X

3rd party visualization API X X

Red - 7.1 release

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